Example sentences of "[prep] which [pers pn] [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of calcium , InsP 3 has little effect , but becomes increasingly active as the concentration of calcium rises , reaching a maximum at about 300nM , after which it begins to be inhibitory . |
| 2 | Thus while it is young , the vine 's efforts are directed towards extending its root system , after which it concentrates on forming the structure of branches which will bear its flowers and fruit . |
| 3 | If you have a lead rising main , it may well be that you can see it only at the mains stopcock , after which it disappears into the wall to re-emerge in the loft covered with sacking on its way to the cold water cistern . |
| 4 | Then came the meeting with the woman whom he was to marry , a meeting about which he writes in the same book . |
| 5 | One sees that X ( and Y ) alternates between intervals during which it oscillates about a positive level and ones during which it oscillates about a negative level . |
| 6 | One sees that X ( and Y ) alternates between intervals during which it oscillates about a positive level and ones during which it oscillates about a negative level . |
| 7 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 8 | Marxism 's claim to the status of a science proper thus functions as a device to avoid the historicity through which it accounts for other phenomena . |
| 9 | Land acquisition , site assembly , land reclamation , infrastructural improvement and environmental enhancement are the means through which it engages with local authorities , the Department of Environment and most importantly , the private sector to lever investment that will lead to economic growth . |
| 10 | Instead they are to put on , as if it were a suit of new clothes , the new humanity that Is brought to them in Christ and is constantly renewed by a deepening knowledge of Christ , into the Creator 's original image in man , a likeness to God himself : hence the ‘ compassion , kindness , lowliness , meekness , patience , forbearance ’ , love , peace and gratitude of which he goes onto speak ( Col. 3:1,5–16 ) . |
| 11 | All a buyer gets to see are the sample boxes opened on the trading floor , on the strength of which he negotiates with the merchant . |
| 12 | I mention this only because it is one of the dominant features in an inspector 's life , the shadow of which he feels at all times . |
| 13 | When his father died in 1974 , Jochen became the Principal of the College , the administration of which he combines with his medical career . |
| 14 | A worker 's average earnings are £100 per week , all of which he spends at an even rate throughout each period . |
| 15 | Moreover , Greer LJ specifically said " I do not decide that in every case where the relation of master and servant exists it is the duty of the servant to disclose , or to disclose upon inquiry , any discrepancies of which he knows of his fellow servants " . |
| 16 | He embarked on his hobby three years ago and sells examples at modest prices to recover the cost of materials , some of which he buys from America and Germany . |
| 17 | I have a friend called Ionel in Romania whose life has genuinely been improved in a small way by my sending him your paper , the contents of which he shares with his friends and so on . |
| 18 | When a young female black-backed jackal first comes into heat she is followed by several young males , one of which she selects as her long-term partner . |
| 19 | She becomes drawn into the business dealings of the Countess , a New York cosmetics tycoon , in the course of which she travels to the Rubber Rose Ranch , a Dakota health spa , and takes part in a revolt by the cowgirls . |
| 20 | The butterfly needed short grass , wild thyme and Myrmica sabuleti , a particular ant species , all of which it has at its new , secret Devon location . |
| 21 | China produced 210,000 tons of pesticides in 1990 , 96 per cent of which it claims to be highly effective but low on toxicity and residue . |
| 22 | Instead of which it seems to be going on and on and I 'm finding myself going round playing at stupid amateur detectives . |
| 23 | In order to understand the state , we need , in accordance with the resolutio-compositive method , first to consider the parts out of which it comes into being . |
| 24 | But tossed about by a cruel world , Iris is not the sort of girl who quietly puts up with her destiny — just as the flower beneath which she reads for a moment , while a woman 's revenge wreaks horrible havoc in the final minutes , is not just an ordinary cactus . |
| 25 | The creation of her own with which she claims to be most impressed is a roulade of guinea fowl with limes and cranberries . |
| 26 | When I speak to him he responds ; but not with the same speed with which he responds to his nurse , from whom of course he obtains satisfaction of his physical needs . |
| 27 | The ease with which he passes from provincial gaucheries to suave Franco-Italianate portraiture , which made him painter to King George III , is fully recorded . |
| 28 | Stories for de Man are , like Rousseau 's parable and Proust 's image , metalingual allegories , and this accounts for the ease with which he passes from specific examples to general rules about language . |
| 29 | The price is more likely to relate to the individual picker and the regularity with which he sells to the warehouse . |
| 30 | But the laxity with which he argues for its deployment , as we saw in Chapter 3 , gives inherent value a defiantly marshmallow consistency . |